page_title: Antonina Houbraken
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Antonina Houbraken / Life
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Tekening van de Jan Rodenpoortstoren te Amsterdam
context_page_description: Antonina Houbraken was an 18th-century Dutch draughtswoman who is known for her many topographical drawings of Dutch sites. She also drew landscapes. She is recorded as a skilled portraitist.
context_section_description: Antonina Houbraken was born on 30 May 1686 and baptized on 31 May 1686 in Dordrecht in the Dutch Republic. She was the daughter of painter and writer Arnold Houbraken and sister of the printmaker Jacob Houbraken.  It is assumed she learned to draw in her father's workshop.
  She married Jacobus Stellingwerff in May 1723.  Her husband was a draughtsman who provided topographical drawings to Brouërius van Nidek, a lawyer who was undertaking a project to map the entire Dutch Republic. For this purpose he collected topographical drawings.  Stellingwerff also made topographical drawings for the albums of Andries and Gerrit Schoemaker, collectors of topographical prints and drawings.   Antonina made a large portion of the drawings for Schoemaker. Stellingwerff died in December 1727 and Antonina continued at least until 1729 to supply drawings to Schoemaker.
  Houbraken died in Amsterdam, aged 50, and was buried on 12 December 1736.
caption: Jan Rodenpoortstoren, Amsterdam
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